Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
What building in Dover now boasts to have 9 yes nine Owls perched on its various rooftops?
As of today the White Cliff Experience building has 9 carved owls on its roof top in an attempt to prevent Gulls from nesting there.
Onlookers have been taking photographs thinking the owls were real.
News and pictures will probably be splashed all over next weeks edition of the local rags.
You heard it here first here from DF's very own twitcher.
C'mon you snappers submit an approriate pic to accompany this groud breaking news.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
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#2
We have plastic owls on the roof of the building where I work. They don't do a thing, in fact the gulls nest up beside them as a windbreak. Why owls anyway? Are the Gulls supposed to feel intellectually inferior or just confused about the time of the day?
Mad!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
i have seen the fake owls be very effective in keeping pigeons away.
i have my doubts that sea gulls will be so intimidated though.
DT1- Location: Dover
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#4
Seagulls obviously read more than pigeons!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#5
they pick up the skill quite easily, the oppportunity to read from discarded litter in my area, is like a 7 day a week college.
i am just waiting for the first one to engage me in conversation about the money supply from the bank of england.
#6
Howard, I had such an interesting dialogue the other day with just such a seagull, regarding the exchange rate and the european monetary policy. they are so very well read...................
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#7
Err I thought the gulld were white and greyish.I have to see a red one.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#8
marek
do try to concentrate on getting your library books back on time, rather than discussing our feathered friends!!
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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#9
That's really funny. Love it. Plastic Scare-Owls. Brilliant. Stick that up your art installations, Folkestone!
More of the same please. Dover's funny. Dovorians are funny. We should make more of this. Humour is the key to regeneration, not po-faced politburo-cracy.
#10
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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#11
I worked at the White Cliffs Experience for a few months before it closed.
On rare occasions, we needed to venture out onto the roof to check on air conditioning condensers and stuff.
We kept an umbrella handy by the ladder to the roof in order to fend off attacks by irate seagulls defending their young.
Plastic Scare-Owls had not been invented in those days.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#12
This cheeky fellow popped in to see me last time I was in Dover!
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#13
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#14
it does seem the same principle as giving a cat a clockwork mouse to play with.
the cat just gives it a disdainful look then goes on the hunt for a real one to murder.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#15
I know I shouldn't laugh
great photo Paul!
#16
When i worked up the immigration removal centre, we were plagued with sea gulls and pigeons and were looking for ways to get rid of them.A local bird lover suggested putting artificial owls on the roof of one of the units.Rather than scare them off we seemed to get more.
Been nice knowing you :)
